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SYDNEY, Monday 8 December 2025 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned the Albanese government against plans to subsidise gas for industrial users, saying it should instead be supporting industry to decarbonise. Media reports today that Labor is weighing up an intervention to start bulk-buying gas and selling it at discounted rates to industrial users, comes … Continued
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WHAT: SA’s Nine prisons go into lockdown WHEN: For 24 hours starting at 7am this morning WHERE: Press Conference at 12.30pm @ the PSA, 122 Pirie St MORE INFO: Prisons in lockdown as Corrections Officers walk off the job over pay and conditions Corrections Officers across seven of South Australia’s prisons have downed … Continued
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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released new data, revealing $1.1 billion in unpaid super has been returned to nearly a million individual’s super funds in 2024–25. Deputy Commissioner Ben Kelly said the latest figures show the ATO’s compliance efforts to protect employee’s super entitlements are continuing to pay dividends. ‘We issued over 200,000 proactive reminders and … Continued
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Western Australian renters are paying an extra $20,000 per year in rent compared to four years ago according to a new report, prompting renewed calls for rent caps to stabilise out-of-control rent rises. The report released by the WA Make Renting Fair Alliance looked at rent increases across the state’s 59 lower house electorates since … Continued
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Catholic Health Australia (CHA) said the Government’s proposal to introduce a Private National Efficient Price (PNEP) for private hospital funding is a long-overdue reform that has the potential to deliver fair, transparent and sustainable funding for essential care. CHA Interim CEO Kathy Hilyard said decisive action on the PNEP would address long-standing problems in … Continued
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Open letter to the Victorian Premier, Treasurer, and Health Minister (Issued by the Public Health Association of Australia on the authors’ behalf). 8 December 2025 As five former Chairs of VicHealth, representing a broad political spectrum and different eras of VicHealth’s work, we write to ask you to reconsider your Government’s decision to … Continued
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Today’s vicious assault at Yatala prison is another example of a system in crisis where low wages has led to chronic understaffing due to attraction and retention issues, says the Public Service Association. In the last few months there has been a number of violent assaults in SA prisons, on November 4th at Yatala Labour … Continued
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Kirralie Smith’s punishment by way of a $95,000 damages order for correctly identifying the gender of a man playing soccer on a women’s team is unjust and is the result of the cowardice of the Liberal and Labor parties, according to Family First. Family First National Director, Lyle Shelton*, said the weaponisation of so-called … Continued
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The passage of the Allan Government’s new laws to sentence children as adults, exposing them to possible life imprisonment for some crimes, marks a tragic turning point for all Victorians. Passing the bill on the final sitting day of the year, the Parliament heard opposition from a number of MPs who shared the widespread view … Continued
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Specialist Fees Denying Patient Access to Care: Time to Act “Reports that specialist fees are skyrocketing and reducing access of patients to specialist care are very concerning and long in the making” said Dr Tim Woodruff, President, Doctors Reform Society. “The Federal Government has been very slow to act on this issue despite repeated advice””, … Continued
